[HCCN] Cuba Caravan Presentation: please join us

[Judith Robbins]

June 18,  2010





PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



MAINERS TO JOIN

JULY CARAVAN TO CUBA



BLUE HILL –  On Friday July 2, the film Pastors for Peace – People to  
People will be shown, co-sponsored by Peninsula Peace & Justice and  
the Let Cuba Live Committee of Maine. For nearly 20 years the NY  
based Pastors for Peace has been organizing Friendshipment Caravans  
to Cuba, and people from Maine have always participated. The goal of  
the caravans is to challenge the travel restrictions imposed by the  
United States, to introduce US citizens to the reality of Cuban life,  
to educate about the immorality of the US economic blockade and to  
normalize relations between the two countries.



Caravan participants hail from the US and Canada, Mexico and several  
European countries. After traveling across the United States, 13  
caravan routes will converge in Texas, to prepare for crossing the US/ 
Mexico border with hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid. After  
spending 10 days in Cuba, the group will re-enter the US on August 3.



This year Peter and Judy Robbins of Sedgwick will be joining the  
effort, along with Dr. Tom Whitney of Norway, Maine, and two  
university students from southern Maine. Members of Let Cuba Live  
have been gathering new and used tools to bring to Cuba to help in  
housing reconstruction, an urgent need following two years of  
hurricane devastation on the island.



The film will be shown at Blue Hill Library 7:00 p.m, followed by a  
discussion. For more information, contact 326-4405 or see  
www.letcubalive.org





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Peninsula Peace & Justice, P.O. Box 1515, Blue Hill Maine 04614

  
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